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Greetings from Brazil
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Greetings from Brazil
by vitor-n » Sat Oct 13, 2012 4:25 pm
Hi fellow Dhammawheel friends! My name is Vitor and I've been interested in Buddhism since I was 15 years old - now I'm 21; I find it very difficult to meet anyone fond of and willing to discuss and practice Buddhism here, for most of the population in the area I live come from a Christian background (I myself was educated as a Christian, but I left Christianism by the time I was 13). Despite feeling lonely and even miserable in my late teens because I could not fit in any group associated with spirituality that were active here, I didn't give up.
Now I hope to learn from you, friends, and also to share my experiences and thoughts.
Now I hope to learn from you, friends, and also to share my experiences and thoughts.
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Re: Greetings from Brazil
by Khalil Bodhi » Sat Oct 13, 2012 4:44 pm
Welcome Vitor!
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
-Dhp. 183
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-Dhp. 183
Uposatha Observance Club:http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=148031379279&v=info
Kiva-Theravada Buddhists:http://www.kiva.org/team/theravada_buddhists
Dana on the Interwebs:
http://greatergood.com
http://freerice.com
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Re: Greetings from Brazil
by LonesomeYogurt » Sat Oct 13, 2012 4:52 pm
Olá Vitor!
I hope this community serves you well. Feel free to post questions or topics, and feel free to send me a PM if you'd like.
May the Triple Gem bless you!
I hope this community serves you well. Feel free to post questions or topics, and feel free to send me a PM if you'd like.
May the Triple Gem bless you!
Gain and loss, status and disgrace,
censure and praise, pleasure and pain:
these conditions among human beings are inconstant,
impermanent, subject to change.
Knowing this, the wise person, mindful,
ponders these changing conditions.
Desirable things don’t charm the mind,
undesirable ones bring no resistance.
His welcoming and rebelling are scattered,
gone to their end,
do not exist.
- Lokavipatti Sutta
Stuff I write about things.
censure and praise, pleasure and pain:
these conditions among human beings are inconstant,
impermanent, subject to change.
Knowing this, the wise person, mindful,
ponders these changing conditions.
Desirable things don’t charm the mind,
undesirable ones bring no resistance.
His welcoming and rebelling are scattered,
gone to their end,
do not exist.
- Lokavipatti Sutta
Stuff I write about things.
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Re: Greetings from Brazil
by cooran » Sat Oct 13, 2012 9:06 pm
Welcome to DhammaWheel! 
with metta
Chris
with metta
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
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Re: Greetings from Brazil
by cooran » Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:57 am
Hello vitor,
Here are some Theravada contacts in Brazil:
http://www.buddhanet.info/wbd/search.ph ... vince_id=0
with metta
Chris
Here are some Theravada contacts in Brazil:
http://www.buddhanet.info/wbd/search.ph ... vince_id=0
with metta
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---
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Re: Greetings from Brazil
by tiltbillings » Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:06 am
Welcome; I hope you find Dhamma Wheel of value.
What is the use of his knowledge
pertaining to the number of insects in the whole world?
Rather, inquire into his knowledge of
that which is to be practised by us
-- Dharmakirti
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond.
SN I, 38.
Níl sa saol seo ach ceo
There is naught in this life but mist
Is ní bheimid beo ach seal beag gearr.
And we will not be alive but a short hard time.
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Re: Greetings from Brazil
by bodom » Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:19 am
Welcome Vitor!
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Re: Greetings from Brazil
by waimengwan » Tue Oct 16, 2012 5:54 pm
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